I'm saying this because I'm worried. I only follow a few Youtubers on here, and it feels like one of them ended up becoming more distant from a good friend because of how many people were shipping them and being obnoxious about it. Now, this is just my opinion, and some other people too. But I feel like even if that's not the case, it's something people need to stop doing. All i'm seeing is comments that basically amount to "well time to ship you and this other guy!" instead of people realizing that their 'shipping' has consequences.
So, here's my main message. If you ship real people who have said that the shipping makes them uncomfortable -- you need to stop doing it publicly. I get that telling people not to ship it won't change shit, so hear me out.
You can ship real people in your mind, no one can stop you there. You can make fanart to share among your friends and write fanfics or whatever. But you need to keep that stuff private, within a community separate from the community of the person you're a fan of.
If you're tagging it, only use the ship tags and don't spam the general fandom tags with it. And if someone says you shipping them with someone else makes them uncomfortable, it is just a dick move to send them fanart, or fanfic, or spam them with shipping comments. I mean, joking about it to some degree is okay -- and obviously if the people say they're fine being shipped, these rules don't apply! But if your friend said that something made them uncomfortable, you would hopefully avoid doing it. That same logic applies here; don't be obnoxious about shipping.
And, especially for large communities, remember that there's probably a ton of shippers doing the same thing as you -- so it's not just a few comments here and there that a "celebrity" has to endure, but a whole onslaught of what can amount to harassment.
Now, I would also like to point out how most of these shippers are shipping two guys together, but I don't really want to get into the fetishization of gay relationships in this particular video. So please, if there's anything you take away from me rambling, just please be considerate of the people you're fans of and respect their wishes. And if you still wanna make content of a ship they feel uncomfortable with, please keep it private, within that specific community instead of in the public community.
Thank you.
